The title of this article was intentionally provocative, but that doesn’t mean I’m wrong.
Right and wrong is such a nebulous concept in sportswriting. Statistically, nobody really knows anything and predicting the outcome of games is largely impossible. Otherwise, the sports betting industry couldn’t possibly exist.
Instead, this provocative statement that the Nuggets are clearly a better team yet the Celtics are still the title favorites is meant to illustrate the glorious complexity yet elegant simplicity of sports, and how with enough numbers, calculations, extrapolations, garlic, salt, pepper, and maybe a little soy sauce you can make any emotionally contrived belief into a reality.